Word: outer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most important ones we have shows that it was used in some important commercial transaction. An extra layer of stone was layed over the seal for protection, and upon the outside of this, writings similar to those the original seal contained were made. From the fact that the outer covering was unremovable except by chemical means, we conclude the seal must have been exceedingly valuable...
...orchestra was semi-circular in form, and was paved with diamond or rhomboidal shaped stones. The seats ascended in curves one above another, and are divided by stairways into wedge shaped divisions. The outer row of seats was about three hundred feet from the orchestra and had an actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once...
...spoken in his last lecture of the superstructure on which the Parthenoon stood, but which was evidently intended for a much larger building. The Parthenon as erected upon the foundation was two hundred and twenty-eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
After describing the architrave, metopes, triglyphs and frieze, Dr. Wheeler touched upon the peculiar feature of the architecture of the temple known as the horizontal curves. The cellar is raised two steps above the floor of the outer colonnade. Above the columns of the cellar the ordinary plain architrave is found, but rising above this is a continuous frieze, unbroken by metopes. This frieze is sculptured along its entire length...
...compound of calcium and oxygen, and that these elements may be separated in the sun. So this apparatus will take the light of the very edge of the sun just as the eclipse becomes total, then of the bottom part of the corona, and then of the outer part. If it is found that some of the lines of the spectrum which appear in the photographs of the edge of the sun and the bottom of the corona, are not found in the outer part of the corona, or if some are found in the outer part of the corona...